[Gr. penia, lack, poverty] Suffix meaning decrease, deficiency. Citation. Venes, Donald, editor. "-penia." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., ...

Deficiency is indicated by the word part penia. A leukopenia is a decrease in white blood cells. Stenosis means a narrowing of a passage way in the body.

21 июл. 2019 г. · The suffix (-penia) means to lack or to have a deficiency. It is derived from the Greek penía for poverty or need.

4 янв. 2021 г. · Guide to common suffixes in medical terminology including: ,-ary, -ate, -blast, -cele, -centesis, -cide, -clasis, -cyte, -desis, -dynia, ...

1.5 Common Suffixes. The suffix is at the end of the word and adds meaning. When building a definition of a medical term from its components, start with the ...

Prefixes and Suffixes ; -paenia, deficiency, Lymphopaenia ; pan-, all, whole, Pansystolic ; para-, beside, Paranasal ; -penia, deficiency, Peniaocyte.

As such, it would not be uncommon to see medical terms with the suffix ... deficiency, pancytopenia. -phagia, eating, dysphagia. -phasia, speech, aphasia. nurse ...

Sign suffixes include '-itis,' meaning 'inflammation;' '-penia,' meaning 'deficiency;' '-rrhea,' meaning 'flow' or 'discharge;' '-rrhage' and '-rrhagia,' both ...

7 окт. 2024 г. · In medical terminology, the suffix that means "deficiency" is -penia. This suffix comes from the Greek word 'penia', which translates to ...